'The Grudge' Scribe Stephen Susco To Verve

EXCLUSIVE: Stephen Susco, who scripted the horror hit The Grudge and its sequel, has been signed by Verve. Susco most recently co-wrote and produced with Sam Raimi an untitled Ole Bornedal-directed horror film. Susco, who’d been repped by CAA, is currently developing The Brink with Gore Verbinski and Starz. Susco continues to be managed by Prolific.

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These guys are actually giving a good name to agenting. They hustle, they close, and they create opportunities in an otherwise dreary market. I’m guessing their secret is that they actually read.

fed rex • on Jun 28, 2011 10:32 am

Now cue the anonymously-posting Verve staffers who will no doubt let us all know what a “quality get” this is… as if they signed Benioff or Monahan.

BN • on Jun 28, 2011 10:32 am

Uh Benioff would be a huge get? Because he has a track record on successes like “Kite Runner” and “Stay?” Nah, he would be a “get” because the Hollywood hype machine says he would be a get, not because of his track record or his work.

Honestly Benioff and Marc Forster have a whole little cottage industry thing going, getting “hotter” and more highly-compensated with each poorly-received and underperforming movie they have a hand in. But you know, they’re tall and good-looking and sit at the cool kid’s table in the high school cafeteria world that is Hollywood.